Worst acting ever.
Sharon Stone could run a clinic in bad acting. It's like she's so bad her bad acting is a virus that spreads to other actors. Quaid is usually pretty good, but in this movie he just looks like a guy waiting to pick up his paycheck.
You can tell this film got hacked up in editing. Too many things just don't add up. It's like they wanted to go with one storyline, then tried a different route, and then it all just collapsed under the weight of all the crap.
That snake scene has to go down as one of the biggest WTF moments in recent cinema history. How did Dale get all those snakes in there? Where did he get his hands on five hundred freaking snakes? And some of em looked like friggin boa constrictors. Did he happen to find those in the pool also?
I always like to imagine what it must have been like for the actors at the premiere of a really bad movie like this. When the lights go up, what do you say? "Uh, I think the snakes came off really well."